Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow.

So there's a question that I keep getting asked in my DMs after my public talks,

from friends at dinner who pull me aside and lower their voices like they're asking me about something illicit.

The question isn't what what should I do?

It's actually more specific than that.

It's, is this thing that I've been reading about actually worth doing?

Or is it just influencer noise?

So that question is the entire premise of this series I'm launching titled, Is This Right for Me?

So we hear a commune have created this podcast series dedicated to the protocols, therapies, supplements, and treatments that keep showing up in your Instagram feed and your group chat.

Treatments like peptides, GLP1s, continuous glucose monitors, psychedelic therapy.

I'm not here to hype them nor to dismiss them, but to simply slow it down, look at the

evidence, understand the risks, and ask the only question that actually really matters, not

whether it's fashionable, but whether it's appropriate for you. I've done

the reading and the research, so you don't have to do all of it. But I'll tell you where the

reading led me, and you can be armed with the information to decide for yourself. Okay, let's get

into it. A couple of years ago, I slapped a continuous glucose

monitor on my triceps and learned something I genuinely did not want to know. I was by all

outward appearances a reasonably healthy person. I ran a wellness company after all. I did exercise.

I ate it whole foods, which as anyone who has ever shopped there can

attest, makes you feel morally superior, even if you mostly bought crackers and kombucha. And yet,

the CGM told a completely different story. My fasting blood glucose was hovering around

125 milligrams per deciliter. My post-perandial spikes were cresting to 200. So I was really without

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